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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Capps steps up on Gulf oil spill
U.S. Rep. Lois Capps usually is content to capably represent her district and stick to her strengths on issues such as education and health care. But in her response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf Coast, she’s demonstrated real leadership — and proven to her constituents in the 23rd Congressional District that when Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Features / Comments Off on Teledyne on another buying spree
Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies is back in acquisition mode. This month, the defense conglomerate made up of dozens of companies has bought two more: Optimum Optical Systems, a Camarillo firm that will complement Teledyne’s infrared imaging systems for unmammned aerial vehicles; and Intelek, a United Kingdom mini-conglomerate that makes electronic systems for satellite communications. Teledyne Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Broadband stimulus cash lands at Occam
In one of the biggest stimulus grants to filter down to a tri-county business, Goleta-based Occam Networks will supply equipment for a $101 million project to bring broadband access to rural Western Kansas. Occam will provide networking equipment to Kansas-based Rural Telephone’s Nex-Tech, which will connect 23,000 households and businesses across 4,600 square miles. “In Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Cal Poly set to launch MBA program; CSUCI to follow
Sharpen your pencils and get out your notebooks, Santa Barbara. Two different MBA programs aimed at working professionals will launch in the city over the next two years. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Channel Islands are both setting up part-time MBA programs in Santa Barbara, with Cal Poly’s launching first and CSUCI planning Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Making the grade: Conejo Valley attracts top corporate talent
Over the past two decades, the Conejo Valley has emerged from a collection of sleepy farm towns to a home for major companies. Good schools and proximity to Los Angeles have a lot to do with the attractiveness of the area to companies such as Dole Food Co., Teledyne Technologies, Amgen and J.D. Power & Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Green jobs are no cure-all for the economy
Just as President Barack Obama was delivering his Oval Office speech promoting a green jobs agenda as part of the next administration push, a report from California Lutheran University economist Bill Watkins was hitting the office printer. The message from Watkins was sobering. Green jobs are costly to produce, the opportunity is limited and, most Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Banks adapt by changing their ways and revamping their looks
The financial crisis rocked the very foundations of the banking world — and going forward, it may change the way banks look from the ground up, too. Few people can better speak to that than Elisa Garcia, owner of Garcia Architects in Santa Barbara. She specializes in banking design; if you live in the Santa Read More →
